About Us – Africa 2000 Network Uganda

About Africa 2000 Network Uganda

Africa 2000 Network was conceived in 1986 at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Special Session on the critical economic situation in Africa. The programme was managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 13 African countries to support community-based projects aimed at environmental pro-tection and promotion of ecologically sustainable devel- opment for improved livelihoods.

Africa 2000 Network- Uganda (A2N-Uganda) started in 1990 as a UNDP project and in January 2002, it was registered as an indepen- dent Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).

Our Vision

A2N-Uganda envisions food and income secure small and medium small scale farming communities.

Our Mission

Our mission is to foster sustainable and productive agricultural, food and environmental systems among small and medium scale farming households in Uganda.

Our Values

A2N-Uganda practices and actions are guided by: Integrity, Transparency and Accountability, Team work and respect for human dignity.

Main activities

Empowerment of communities through participatory processes in problem diagnosis, planning and implementation of micro-projects.

Training for skills development in agriculture and natu-ral resources management to improve agricultural pro-duction, which results into improved incomes and food security, while at the same time regenerating the envi-ronment.

Facilitating the exchange of ideas and experiences on rural development by communities through exchange/exposure visits

Development and packaging of information to suit the needs of the communities in the form of booklets, video-A2N-Uganda’s Head Office is located in Kampala and is headed by the Executive Director who has over 20 years’ experience in rural development work and NGO management and is responsible for implementing the decisions of the Board of Directors, overall project ex-ecution, reporting to Partner Organisations and finan-cial management.

Development & Specific Objectives

To improve agricultural production and productivity for the market.

To increase quantity and quality of agricultural produce by small and medium holder farmers

To enhance capacity of small and medium holder farmer to meet their food security and nutrition needs

To increase farmer access to sustainable agricultural markets and market information

To positively influence policies and practices for selected agricultural enterprises

To strengthen the capacity of A2N to effectively and efficiently deliver its mandate

Our Objectives

Participatory Development Management (PDM)

Participatory Development Management (PDM)- whereby communities are empowered to determine their development aspirations and the kind of interventions and activities to undertake by themselves and with others to achieve those aspirations. The lower level development plans right from the house- hold inform and provide the building blocks of the next community level development plan up to the district and so on.

Integration of livelihood improvement interventions

Integration of livelihood improvement interventions to attain food security and income generation. Interrelationships between nutrition and health, soils and production, livestock and crops, literacy and wealthy creation are emphasized to attain visible impact on the livelihoods of the participating communities.

Strategic Partnerships

Strategic Partnerships; single handedly, A2N-Uganda cannot meet all the livelihood demands from the partner farmers and others beyond. A2N-Uganda works with other service providers within the NGO sector, Local Governments, Agricultural Research Organizations (local and International), Higher Institutions of learning, the private and public commercial sector to work together in service delivery and outreach to scale. This way, syner- gies are built and there is mutual learning and benefits realized for all parties in the partnership. Under the same strategy, volunteers with different specialties are engaged in the organization to offer technical backstopping on institutional development issues.

Access to markets

Access to markets- this is a strategy to transform subsistence agriculture into market oriented farming. Farming as a business is emphasized and enterprise selection using Participatory Market Research (PMR).

Mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues

Mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues. In all interventions by A2N-Uganda, gender analyses are made and appropriate actions undertaken to ensure equity and harmony between the different sexes. This enhances full human potential harnessing for prolific change. The environment as a medium for sustainable production is always at the centre of our intervention to ensure low external inputs sustainable agriculture with increased yields due to effective nutrients recycling and balancing. HIV/AIDS scourge and COVID 19 pandemic are heavily impacting on the organization and the communities, as such behavioral and attitude change is desirable. Strategies are in place that are spearheaded by A2N-Uganda and/or with other organizations to adequately inform staff and partner farmers of the diseases and related services available.

Facilitating the emergency of strong farmers organizations for collective action

Farmers need a collective voice to attain what is due to them. Given their small holdings, farmers need to bulk produce and negotiate fair prices together in the market place. They also require to pool their little incomes together to raise adequate investable capital in ventures and enterprises that will propel them forward. Such strong organizations, are tem- plates and vanguard for good leadership and governance with in the associations and beyond in the community governance strata.

Direct interfacing with the farmers

Direct interfacing with the farmers -Resident Community Development Workers (CDWs) within the project areas are engaged at sub-county level to mobilize, follow-up commitments and carry out routine on-farm advisory services (extension). These are supervised by a Project Coordinator in the respective district. This core team of 5-7 people make things happen in the project area.

Information management at grassroots level

Information management at grassroots level is a strategy to enable smallholder farmers access information relevant to improving their enterprises through the community libraries. Community capacity to tell and document their stories is built for wide sharing and dissemi- nation of successes for replication.

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